Jan Lipski - Vandenberg Village

Don’t you love buzzwords? A word or phrase grabs hold of the lexicon and its use becomes ubiquitous in everyday life. Worse yet, it starts to creep into the barrage of advertising that we endure daily. At first they’re cute and as we try to show our hipness we try to incorporate them in our […]

Anthropogenic. I can barely say the word without pausing, taking a deep breath, and then like a sprinter, saying “anthropogenic.” It’s one of those made-up scientific-sounding words often paired with climate change. Probably Latin derived. Doctors, lawyers, biologists, and such all make up words with Latin derivation to sound scientific. Also, Latin is a dead […]

Listening to the local news coverage, I can tell that those who are critical of leaving the Paris Accord probably didn’t listen to President Trump’s arguments for why it was a bad deal for the United States. I happen to agree with his points. Not knowing how our local critics came to their opinion is […]

It’s a hot summer day. July 22, to be exact. My grandkids are here for the day with a couple of friends. In fact they’ve spent most of the summer recess here because I’m retired, so when their parents are at work they have a safe place to be. I’ve got a small above-ground pool […]

Jim Mallon, “The real threat,” June 23, wandered through seven paragraphs of his mental anguish on why we suffer through all the carnage and death that occurs in our country while dismissing the obvious lapse of mental health programs or border enforcement that really is the root of the insanity that is visited upon us […]